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...Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front threatened to march into a French-controlled security zone in southwestern Rwanda and disarm Hutu militiamen -- unless the 2,000-man French force does it first. The threat came as theRPF seemed on the verge of rolling into the zone, the last territory not under its control. The Tutsis reportedly have set upa new government with a moderate Hutu as prime minister, even as the old Hutu cabinet tried to operate out of a half-empty luxury hotel.parpar
...Rwandans have fled to neighboring countries -- some to escape the butchery; others, including Hutu who joined in the killing, fearing retribution from the rebels. Up to 2 million more have jammed into camps within Rwanda, seeking safety in numbers. Most are in government-held territory in the western and southwestern parts of the country, out of reach of aid agencies and at severe risk for epidemics and starvation. United Nations peacekeepers, deployed in the once picturesque capital of Kigali now being shelled into a sprawling ruin, concede they are powerless to intervene: last week the diminutive force was twice compelled...
After reading 700 pages of rules governing the cable-television business, Southwestern Bell said no thanks to a planned $4.9 billion merger with Cox, the country's sixth largest cable system. "It's unlikely the cable industry can generate the cash flow we expected," concluded a senior vice president of Southwestern, based in San Antonio, Texas. This deal is the second to fall apart following the FCC announcement of another round of 7% cuts in cable rates. Bell Atlantic mentioned the rate cutbacks when it scuttled its planned $20 billion takeover of TCI last February...
Students they are, or at least they say, From schools like Penn and Libert-ay, Duke, Temple, Alabama, And Southwestern Louisiana. They will converge, oh yes they will, Until but one can stand still...
...move forward with combined ventures of their own. Among them: Time Warner and U.S. West, which last May put up $2.5 billion for a 25% stake in Time Warner Entertainment, a unit of Time Warner that owns, among other things, cable outlets in 36 states. At the same time, Southwestern Bell and Cox Cable have teamed up to develop interactive TV systems of their...